On February 5, 2026, a Warren County, New Jersey jury returned a $12 million verdict—$4 million in compensatory damages and an additional $8 million in punitive damages—against a small trucking company and its driver in the first civil jury trial held in that county in approximately thirteen years. The case, Vieira v. BJJ Enterprises, LLC, (WRN-L-047-22), involved a rear-end tractor-trailer collision on Route 78 East in October 2021 and a plaintiff with a herniated lumbar disc and…
By: Tyson & Mendes LLP
By: Tyson & Mendes LLP
